The ACLS Research University Consortium comprises a select group of Associate members who have committed to providing additional financial support to ACLS, thereby helping to sustain and enhance the national infrastructure of humanities research.

The Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange provided over $720,000 to ACLS in 2018 to Fund Research in China Studies.

Representing 34
universities, the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows receive $38,000
awards to support the completion of dissertation projects in a range of
humanities and social science disciplines.

Burkhardt Fellowships support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, ambitious scholarship while in residence at institutions whose resources and intellectual communities are ideally suited to facilitate their research.

The Constitution states that a purpose of government is to “promote the general welfare.” Our capacity to understand our country and our world is critical to that goal. This week, the Trump Administration issued a budget request for the coming fiscal year that undermines that capacity. . . .

Nandi Dill Jordan is finishing her first year as a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and digital content specialist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jordan, who has a PhD in sociology from New York University, reflects on the greatest challenges of pursuing a career path outside of academia, as well as her most rewarding experiences thus far at LACMA.

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The
Luce/ACLS Fellowships in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs
support scholars in the humanities and related social sciences who are pursuing
research on religion in an international context and desire to connect their
projects with journalists and media specialists.

Burkhardt Fellowships
support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, ambitious research
while in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities
are ideally suited to facilitate their research.

The teams that make up this year’s cohort of ACLS Collaborative Research Fellows transcend disciplines, institutions, time periods, or geographies (and, in some cases, all four) to shape new understandings of our world.

ACLS convened its annual Public Fellows Seminar in Philadelphia on August 25-27. The event, the third meeting of its kind for the six-year-old program, focuses on forging a network of PhD-professionals at similar stages in their careers.

With the 2016 cohort, the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program now has supported more than 100 PhDs as they demonstrate that the capacities honed in the course of completing a PhD in the humanities have broad practical applications.

The inaugural cohort of grantees will develop new public programming, research working groups, and curricular ventures that increase the presence of scholarship on religion in journalism training and practice.

This year's awardees will be pursuing research and writing on
the history and cultures of China, including African and South Korean
Pastor-Entrepreneurs in Guangzhou, Conceiving the Communist Child, Calligraphy
by Zhang Huaiguan, and Chinese Culinary Nationalism.”

Fellows
include independent scholars as well as tenure-track and non-tenure-track
faculty of all ranks, from more than 50 colleges and universities, working on
projects that span the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Burkhardt Fellowships support recently tenured faculty as they pursue long-term, unusually ambitious research while in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are ideally suited to facilitate the proposed research project.

The Luce/ACLS Ellen Holtzman Dissertation Fellowship in American Art will be awarded to an emerging scholar of demonstrated achievement whose research and writing concerns American modernism and art of the 1950s and 1960s.

The event, which will take place July 7-9 at the University of British Columbia, will celebrate the first cohort of Dissertation Fellows of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

Jackson, a 2012 ACLS Public Fellow, describes how his new role promoting collaboration between an academic library and a university press "engages the same problem-solving dopamine receptors" that led him to pursue a humanities PhD.

ACLS asked its fellows to describe their research the knowledge it creates and how this knowledge benefits our understanding of the world. This response comes from two ACLS Collaborative Research Fellows.